Dragging a URL to the right side of the dock

I use to do this pretty elegantly when I wanted quick access instead of bookmarking it. Now dragging the URL works but it's dock independent and just stays on the desktop where as before I would just drag it to the dock and it would be clean and the @ icon would size proportionate to the dock icons. I took a chance on posting here. Thanks. d

Mine is still working as it always has. Address dropped on the desktop it's a normal webloc, dragged from the address bar to the Dock it's the generic spring.
A webloc dragged from the desktop to the dock is a dock sized webloc icon.
You could try Relaunching finder~ right click the Finder icon in the dock holding down the option key at the same time, the relaunch option is then available on the context menu.
Restarting your Mac comes next then the ubiquitous permissions repair.
S.

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